I doubt I will surprise anyone by saying this, but I miss being in London and it being 2012.
I am currently not in London and it is 2013 (well spotted, I can hear you say), but I can hear the Underworld track ''And I Will Kiss'' in the background of the BBC's ''Anniversary Games'' (a song which has, since, become my most loved of EPIC DRIVING TRACKS, if you would like a fact of the day), I can see the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium, I have just watched the Games Maker who sat next to me at the SPOTY Awards be interviewed (small world and all that), and am just about to re-witness the Queen jumping out of a helicopter. So, as far as I am concerned, today is a good day. Just as it was a year ago. On my desk at university I keep a laminated article of quotes that people made about the Games Makers. You know, just because in moments of essay-desperation a casual ego-boost is always helpful. (Dear lecturer who will remain anonymous, you may have set me this essay, but I mopped the Olympic badminton courts, SO THERE, NURRRRRRRR).
As fellow blogger and former sports editor of the Independent, Charlie Burgess, said:
''The Big Purple and Red Society really did work. Let’s keep it that way''.
We did the Olympics well, London. And so, with my Olympic-fix sorted for the time being and with renewed pride to be British (welcome to the world, George the Royal Baby- I would be lying If I said that I wasn't one of the super-keen-enthusiasts who kept the Tatler live-stream from the Lindo Wing on for two days), I feel fairly well prepared to head off to be an English Language Assistant in Germany for a while. But not until I've had my interview for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. This volunteering malarkey has to be done properly, after all.
